The sinking of the two ships is considered one of the Navy’s worst disasters, with 330 crew lost from HMS Prince of Wales and 512 ... and marked the end of the battleship as the pre-eminent ...
What You Need to Know: In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck proved formidable, sinking HMS Hood and damaging Prince of ...
Even more than Pearl Harbor, the sinking of the two British battleships served to convince political and naval authorities of the pre-eminence of airpower in the Pacific.